Customs Union states-members the following information is stated: “specialized food product for sportsmen”;
- for specialized products meant for sportsmen the following information is additionally put on consumer packing: data on food and energy value of product,
share of physiological daily need determined by the national legislation of the Customs Union states-members; recommended dosage, methods of preparation if
necessary, terms and length of use;
- at marking of food and energy value of food stock and food products the data on content of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and energy value is given, if their
quantity in 100 g ml of food stock or food product exceeds 2, mineral substances and vitamins – 5 of recommended physiological daily need
established by the national legislation of the Customs Union states-members. Marking of food and energy value is not required for favor products coffee, tea,
vinegar, spicery, table salt and others;
- for butcher meat and poultry meat, food offal of butcher and poultry meat, as well as butcher and poultry meat included in composition of all types of food
products, type of thermal processing – “chilled” butcher meat obtained directly after slaughter and its offal subject to cooling up to 0° - +4° in muscle with
non-damped surface with drying up crust; poultry meat obtained directly after slaughter and its offal subject to cooling up to 0° - +4° in muscle are referred to
chilled ones.
- other information according to the national legislation of the Customs Union states-members.
19. Use of terms “dietary”, “medical”, “preventive”, “children”, “probiotic”
or their equivalents in the names of food products, in the information on consumer packing and leaflets to products is carried out in accordance with the procedure
established by the national legislation of the Customs Union states-members.
20. Use of a term “ecologically pure product” in the name and at putting the
information on consumer packing of a specialized food product, as well as use of other terms without legislative and scientific substantiation, is not allowed.
1.5. Hygienic requirements for safety and food value of food products
21. Uniform sanitary requirements determine the hygienic requirements for
safety of food products and their ability to satisfy the physiological human needs in main food substances and energy.
22. Organoleptic properties of food products shall not change at storage,
transportation conveyance and in the course of sale. 23.
Food products shall not have any off-odors, off-tastes, foreign inclusions, and change in color, smell and consistence certifying product spoilage.
24. At manufacture of animal origin food stock it is not allowed to use
veterinary drugs fodder additives, animal growth-promoting factors, including hormonal agents, veterinary drugs, including antibiotics, drugs for animal and
poultry processing, as well as drugs for processing of facilities for their keeping,
which are not permitted to be used in accordance with the legislation of the Customs Union states-members.
25. At manufacture of vegetation origin food stock it is not allowed to use
pesticides prohibited to be used in accordance with the legislation of the Customs Union states-members.
as amended by Decision of the Customs Union Commission N 341 of 17.08.2010
26. Food product safety from microbiological and parasitological point of
view, as well as in terms of chemical contaminator content, is determined by product compliance with the determined hygienic safety regulations.
27. Indices of safety and food value of food products, including biologically
active additives, mix, are determined based on the main types of food stock both by mass share and admitted levels of regulated contaminants.
28. Safety indices for dry, concentrated or diluted food products are
determined in terms of the initial product subject to dry substance content in the food stock and the end product.
29. Hygienic regulation shall apply to potentially dangerous chemical
compounds and biological objects microorganisms and their toxins, parasites, protozoa, of which availability in food products shall not exceed the permissible
levels of their content in the set mass volume of a product under study.
30. Content of regulated chemical contaminants posing danger to human
health is controlled in food products. 31.
Hygienic requirements for allowable content of toxic elements are set to all types of food stock and food products.
32. Content of micro toxins – aflatoxin
В1, deoxynivalenol vomitoxin, zearalenone, fumonisin, -2 toxin, penicidin – is controlled in vegetation origin
food stock and products, aflatoxin
1
– in milk and milk products. Priority contaminants are: for cereal products - deoxynivalenol; for nuts and oil-bearing
plants seeds – aflatoxin В
1
; for products of fruit and vegetable processing – penicidin.
33. Content of ochratoxin
А is controlled in cereal grain and flour-and- cereals products, fumonisin – in maize and products of its processing.
34. It is not allowed to have mycotoxins in children and dietary products.
35. Pesticides – global contaminants - are controlled in all types of food
stock and products: hexachlorocyclohexane alpha, beta, hamma-isomers, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its metabolites. Organomercurial pesticides,
2.4-D acid, its salts and ethers are also controlled in grain and products of its processing. 2.4-D acid, its salts and ethers are also controlled in fish and products
of processing.
36. Residual quantity of pesticides, except for global contaminants stated in
Clause 35, is determined based on information of their use, which is provided by manufacturer supplier of food products at their import into the territory of the
Customs Union states-members or at supply to be processed according to the procedure established by the national legislation of the Customs Union states-
members.
Content levels of residual quantity of pesticides used in agriculture are evaluated in accordance with the hygienic regulations for pesticides content in the
environment objects. 37.
Dioxins are regulated in all groups of food products. Dioxins are not allowed in children products. Control over dioxins content is exercised by
manufacturer supplier, importer and or by the authorised bodies of supervision control only in case of environment deterioration due to accidents, anthropogenic
and natural disasters leading to formation and appearance of dioxins in the environment; in case of reasonable supposition of their possible presence in food
raw materials. as amended by Decision of the Customs Union Commission N 456 of 18.11.2010
38. Residual quantities of veterinary drugs - animal growth-promoting
factors including hormonal agents, medical drugs including antibiotics used for the purposes of fattening up, treatment and prevention of diseases of cattle and
poultry, fish of pond and cage culture fishery and bee families are controlled in animal origin products, including those used in child nutrition.
39. Meat, meat products, offal of cattle and poultry for slaughter, fish of
pond and cage culture fishery, beekeeping products are being controlled for the
subject of content of feed and medical antibiotics most commonly used in animal breeding and veterinary in accordance with Part I of the Uniform Sanitary
Requirements:
- bacitracin bacitracin A,B,C, zincbacitracin; - tetracycline group tetracycline, oxytetracycline, chlortetracycline –sum of
the original substances and their 4- epimers;
- penicillin group benzylpenicillin, phenoxymethylpenicillin, ampicillin,
amoxicillin, penethamate; - streptomycin;
- laevomycetin chloramphenicol. 40.
Control over content of veterinary drugs, animal growth-promoting factors including hormonal agents, medical drugs including antibiotics used in
livestock farming for the purposes of fattening up, treatment and prevention of diseases of cattle and poultry, fish of pond and cage culture fishery and bee
families, which are not stated in Clause 39 is exercised based on information of their use as provided by manufacturer supplier of food raw materials and food
products at their import into the territory of the Customs Union states-members or at supply to be processed according to the procedure established by the national
legislation of the Customs Union states-members. Maximum permissible levels of residues of the specified agents are stated in Annex 4 to this Part I of the Uniform
Sanitary Requirements.
41. Polychlorinated biphenyls are controlled in fish and fish products, BAS
based on fish products; benzapyrene – in grain, smoked meat and fish products. 42.
It is not allowed to have melamine available in food products. Control over melamine content in milk and milk products is exercised in case of reasonable
supposition of its possible availability in food stock.
43. It is not allowed to have benzapyrene available in children and dietary
products, for which the relevant requirements are set forth. as amended by Decision of the Customs Union Commission N 456 of 18.11.2010
44. The following are controlled in certain food products: nitrogen-bearing
compounds content: histamine – in salmon fishes and scombrids, sardines, tunny fishes; nitrates – in fruit and vegetable products; N-nitrosamine – in fish and fish
products, meat products and brewer’s malt.
45. Phycotoxins are controlled in non-fish objects of fishery mollusks, crab
internals. 46.
Oxydative spoilage indices: acid value and peroxide value are regulated in fat products.
47. It is not allowed in food products to have available pathogenic germs and
parasitic disease causative agents, their toxins causing infectious and parasitic diseases or posing danger to human health according to the present Uniform
Requirements. The detection of pathogenic germs in 25g cm
3
of food products, for which absence criteria of pathogenic germs is not set forth by Annex 1, is
carried out in case of deterioration of the epidemiologic situation in the region of production, caused by this product.
as amended by Decision of the Customs Union Commission N 456 of 18.11.2010
48. It is not allowed in raw meat to have cattle stock and pork, lamb, horse
meat the parasitic disease causative agents available in raw meat: bladder
worms cysticercus, porkworm and echinococcus larvas, sarcocyst and toxoplasmosis bladders.
49. It is not allowed to have live parasite larva dangerous for human health
available in fish, crustaceans, mollusks, amphibian, reptile and products of their processing.
50. Presence of helminthes eggs and intestinal pathogenic protozoa bladders
is not allowed in fresh and fresh frozen greenery, vegetables, fruits and berries. 51.
Hygienic regulations by microbiological indices of food product safety include the following microorganism groups:
- sanitary indicator, including: quantity of mesophilic aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms QMAFANM, colibacillus group bacteria – CGB
coliforms, Enterobacteriaceae family bacteria, enterococcus; - opportunistic microorganisms, including:
Е. coli, S. aureus, Proteus-type bacteria,
В. cereus and sulfite-reducing clostridia, Vibrio parahaemolyticus; - pathogenic
microorganisms, including salmonella and Listeria
monocytogenes; - Yersinia-type bacteria and other pathogenic microorganisms according to
epidemiological situation in production region; - spoilage
microorganisms – yeast and mold fungi, lactic-acid
microorganisms; - starter population microorganisms and probiotic microorganisms lactic-
acid microorganisms, propionic microorganisms, yeast, bifidus bacteria, lactobacillus etc. in products with regulated level of technological micro flora and
in probiotic products.
52. Microbiological indices of food products safety are regulated, for the
major group of microorganisms, by alternative principle, i.e. the mass of product is rationed, in which the colibacillus group bacteria, majority of pathogenic
microorganisms, as well as pathogenic microorganisms, including salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes, are not allowed. In other cases the regulation reflects
quantity of colony forming units in 1 g ml of product CFUg, ml.
53. Safety criteria for canned food products industrial sterility is the
absence of microorganisms in the canned products, which are capable to develop at storage temperature designated for a certain type of canned foods, and
microorganisms and microbal toxins fangerous for human health.
54. Biologically active substances, food components and products that are
their sources, which are used at manufacture of biologically active additives, shall ensure BAAs efficiency and shall not make harm influence on human health.
Biologically active substances are the sources of food, natural identical to natural biologically active substances components of food, pro- and prebiotic
components ensuring their adequate arrival to a human body when being consumed with food or introduced in food products composition.
55. Biologically active substances, food components and products, that are
their sources, used for manufacturing of biologically active substances to food, must not have adverse impact on human health and must not contain psychotropic,
narcotic, poisonous or potent substances, as defined by the applicable legislation of
the Customs Union states-members, as well as dope substances included into the effective list of the WADA
Biologically active additives to food must conform to the hygienic safety
regulations of foodstuff, stated in Part I of this Uniform Sanitary Requirements for this part.
The list of the major biologically active substances and permissible levels of daily consumption thereof by adults as part of biologically active additives to food
are established in Annex 5 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary Requirements. The content of biologically active substances in the daily dose of biologically active
additives to food, specified in the directions for taking such BAAs, shall make up not less than 15 of the adequate consumption level and must not exceed the
upper permissible consumption level in accordance with Annex 5 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary Requirements.
Plants and their derived products, products of animal origin, microorganisms, fungi and biologically active substances, which make a threat
agains human life and health according to the data of recent research, established in Annex 6 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary Requirements, must not be allowed
for usage in manufacturing of biologically active additives to food.
Forms of vitamins and mineral salts to be used in manufacturing of BAAs to food for adults are stated in Annex 7 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary
Requirements. Content of biologically active substances, produced from plants andor their
extracts in the daily dose of biologically active additives to food must make up not less then 10 and not more than 50 of the amount of their single therapeutic
dose, established in traditional medicine for consumption of such substances as medical drugs.
Forms of vitamins and mineral salts to be used in manufacturing of enriched food products, except for food products for the
early-aged children
and BAAs to food are specified in Annex 8 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary Requirements.
Forms of vitamins and mineral salts in accordance with Annex 9 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary Requirements can be used in manufacturing of food
products for the
early-aged children
and BAAs to food for children aged from 1,5 to 3 years. The daily dose of vitamins and mineral substances as part of BAAs to
food for the children aged from 1,5 to 3 years must not exceed 50 of the daily physiological need in the specified substances, established by the national
legislation of the Customs Union states-members.
Wild and medical plants except for dill, fennel and chamomile cannot be used in manufacturing of BAAs for the
early-aged children
up to 3 years. The list of herbal raw materials, which can be used in manufacturing of BAAs to food
for the children aged from 3 to 14 and baby herbal teas tea beverages for the
early-aged children is given in Annex
10 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary Requirements.
BAAs, which include only vitamins and mineral salts in accordance with Annex 7 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary Requirements, dietary fibers,
probiotics and prebiotics, as well as drug raw materials, stated in Annex 10 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary Requirements can be used in nutrition of children
aged from 3 to 14. The daily dose of BAAs to food for the children older than 3 years must not exceed in of the daily physiological need in the specified
substances, established by the national legislation of the Customs Union states- members: for vitamins A, D, mineral substances selenium, copper, zinc, iodine,
iron – 100, for water-soluble vitamins and other fat-soluble vitamins and other mineral substances– 200.
Forms of vitamins and mineral salts to be used in manufacturing of specialized sport nutrition products and specialized dietary medical and
preventive food products, except from foodstuff for the
early-aged
children, are specified in Annex 11 to this part of the Uniform Sanitary Requirements.
56. Food product value indices are substantiated by a manufacturer author
of technical documents based on analytical research methods andor using the computational method subject to food product formulation and data on stock
composition.
57. Children food products shall comply with functional state of child’s body
subject to its age and shall be safe for child’s health. 58.
Children food products, as well as stock and components for their manufacture, products for pregnant and nursing mothers, shall comply with special
certain hygienic regulations on safety and food value. 59.
Food additives, which do not make harm influence on human life and health and those of future generations according to the data of recent research, are
allowed to be used in food products.
60. Use of food additives and their allowable content in food products shall
comply with the requirements established by Part 22 of this Uniform Sanitary Requirements. Requirements for technological auxiliaries are specified in Part 23
of this Uniform Sanitary Requirements. Requirements for safety of food additives and technological auxiliaries are established in accordance with the requirements
of national legislation of the Customs Union states-members.
61. by the legislation of the Customs Union states-members.
62. Safety and quality indices for food additives and supplements shall meet
the hygienic regulations established in the Customs Union states-members. 63.
Substances, for which the content regulation is established in the “not allowed” value, shall mean their absence in the food product in quantities not
exceeding the minimum required levels of determination as agreed by the Customs Union states-members.
1.6. Requirements for storage and transportation
